Oh, I love this huge countdown! There was a default picture of a girl in summer garb, but I chose to do ^this^ because the pic would get blurry if I made it larger than 100 pixels. . .

Oi, do I sound like a nerd when I say 100 pixels? I dunno, I sound like I know what I'm talking about. xD

Let me explain the schedule here:

Today is the 25th. I have no school on the 27th because of Memorial Day. Other than that, the week is normal. Then the 3rd, 4th, and 5th of June are when I take my finals, which are half days. The 5th is the last day of school.

That equals almost 11 days until summer break right at this moment, but technically there's 5 and a half days left of actual school.

5 AND A HALF DAYS!!! Summer is so close! I feel like it's so far away!

Even though it's almost the end of the year, I still have one last project to do. "It's a pamphlet," Mrs. Martin says, but I'm getting the project vibe more. Anyway, I'm gonna make it the most fantabulous project a teacher has laid their eyes on. It's for The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, and I might even post some pics on here once I'm done. CUZ' IT WILL LOOK AWESOME. I'm just really excited for it, chya know?

And if you're wondering what I'm doing for summer, I know that fo sho my fam's going to the Philippines! We're celebrating my brother and my birthdays, fo sho. I really hope I have the chance to update this site, cuz' I have the feeling I'll be really busy having fun. Which is a good thing, but you know I love to talk to you guys during the summer. But I'm not spending my whole time at the Philippines. So I might have a bunch of time to blog all day, err day. . . unless I go to this program my teacher recommended me for. . .

But uh, spoiler. Highlight the space right after this sentence to find out what happened in American Idol: Candice Glover is our new AMERICAN IDOOLLLLLL! She totes deserves it!

Now I just saw a MysteryGuitarMan video which is awesome!! So go watch it, right now!

And today, we had an awards ceremony! At my school, usually awards ceremonies are on some evening and have all three grades attending. And take three hours.

Welll, today, it was different. Sixth graders all went to their assembly during first period, seventh graders during second, and eighth graders this evening. So even the kids who didn't get any awards got to see what an awards assembly was like. . . and were able to get out of class. I got Straight A's and Academic Excellence in Science. So, yay!

Today was also locker cleanout day. I didn't have anything in my locker during the time we were supposed to be out of the room, so I had to walk around the hall four times. . . And my friend Brittney didn't like how big her backpack was, so she offered me three books. I liked two, which I will talk about in the Books n' Writing Blog.

Oh, and for my awards and stuff, my family gave me a gift! Pajamas, dried mango, mango jelly (I love me some mangoes), a cuh-yoot miniature pinscher necklace, and the always important card. And I'd like to read my brother's message to me:

I can't believe you got a "silly" award for science. So yeah... Good job and stuff. Keep up the <generic work hard quote>.

Well, I hope you guys had an awesome day! I'm enjoying dried mango for you guys! :)

Hold on to your keyboards everyone, cuz' we're about to travel BACK IN TIME!

Sorta.

I've been trying to catch up with all these requests for advice and anime and text to paint and crud like that and I finally found all the requests in my inbox, and well, I'm surprised to see advice from 2012 I haven't answered yet. So yeah! Expect lots n' lots n' LOTS of updates today. Everywhere.

Yesterday, after doing a choir performance, we went on our charter bus and started to head home. But it wasn't very far until the smell of fuel hit the air. . .

Yeah, our bus was smoking.

We all rushed off the bus. There was a lot of smoke, and that's all I saw. Others said our bus was on fire. I didn't see any bus engulfed in fire, so I guess they were just being melodramatic. There were singing, "THIS BUS IS ON FIRRRREEEEEEE" and saying, "We could've DIEDDDD". And after that, it was "survival mode" as we waited for another bus.

See, there were two charter buses for our choir. I just happened to be on the bus that started smoking. The smoking stopped just a little bit after we went off it. So that meant at 6:00 pm, half of the choir was already driving off to the school while we sat there and complained.

The highlights of the long wait: dust on people's shirts and butts from sitting on the wrong things, eating people's cotton candy and MY Cheetos, a guy peeing in a water bottle and his friend finding it and throwing it near the rest of us, two guys jumping over me from behind when I was sitting on the ground nonchalantly, free wi-fi, girls squealing over a love calculator app, and getting onto another charter bus at 7:00 pm.

It was a cuh-razy day yesterday. And it was tiring.

But hey! It's all okay! And the whole thing makes a great story tomorrow. Byee!

. . .Yeah, but seriously, it's too warm for comfort these days. Highs of 80 to 90 degrees? Fahrenheit? (Sorry, rest of the the Celsius-using world!) Ahh, too much to handle! On the other hand, Weebly is not just looking extra hot, but fresh, with their awesome possum new look!

Anyway, song song song time! Yesterday, last night to be specific, I was checking out this lovely site (again) and found Inside a Boy by My Brightest Diamond.

What made me fall in love with this song: a totes unexpected twist. Lemme explain. The intro was just really cool and beautiful and then BOOM! Enter the drums and guitar. It's giving me this great Rock Band game vibe. :D I've been having this on repeat for twelve thousand years, give or take some.